Bad Ms Pacman screen images?

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I just bought a Ms. Pacman and this is what it looks like when It is in attract mode. The game coins up and plays fine except the Ms. Pacman image is scrambled while in game play mode and when I run over a fruit, rather than it showing 100, 300, 500, etc. it will show an image of a ghost, usually inky, the red one. Any idea as to how to resolve this? I did my best to take a few pics, so they are included.

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Among other addressing issues or something else wrong with the data path from the graphics roms, it looks as if the graphics ROMs are from Pac-Man and not Ms. Pac-Man.
 
Make sure the vram addresser board is nice and snug.

I'd make sure all your eproms are seated properly. Carefully remove them and re-seat. Also reseat the vram addresser board and the daughterboard and ribbon cable.
 
Looks like pac character roms on a board running mspac. Change 5E & 5F. You can remove the ribbon cable and install the z80 on the main board to verify.
 
so if I remove the ribbon cable, what should show up when I power up?

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Remove the ribbon cable from the main board, remove the z80 cpu from the aux board and put it on the main board where the ribbon cable was. The board should now play pacman. If everything looks good as a pacman you just need to get the correct 5E & 5F roms to make it a mspac.
 
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